Mar 26, 2009 09:06
Since contracting Crohn's disease and having a bizarre set of reactions to seemingly random foods, we have dubbed any food that doesn't harm me as "Reasie-safe".
Usually, the worse it is for you, the more reasie-safe it is. McDonald's cheeseburgers are Reasie-safe. (Which should raise some alarms, because onions and pickles are "reasie-death", and these cheeseburgers claim to contain both.)
Anyway, my sister being Baroness of the Cleftlands and all, she decided to challenge the cooks of the barony to produce foods that I, a vegetarian, a person who is allergic to gluten, and someone who is allergic to citrus could all eat.
There were many an egg-custard and rice-pudding produced. ;)
Grace also challenged them to make a whole menu that would feed us - and I did think that was a bit much to demand. Only one entrant did - and several people I talked to who had been enthusiastic about the challenge ended up not competing because of the menu requirement. Still, it made judging easy - really, only one person met the full challenge, and we gave the prize to her.
But my that flan was tasty.
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